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Cybersecurity Has a Serious Talent Shortage. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

So what’s causing the talent shortage? There are no signs that the bad guys are limiting their talent pool — and cybercrime is now a $445 billion business. One way IBM is addressing the talent shortage is by creating “ new collar ” jobs, particularly in cybersecurity. million unfilled positions by 2020.

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Great Companies Obsess Over Productivity, Not Efficiency

Harvard Business

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. Efficiency is about doing the same with less. The benefits from improving efficiency appear to have petered out.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Flexible talent-access platforms are enabling many of these companies, making it easier than ever before to bring in the right skills for the right project at the right time. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. And wages are stagnant.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. However, doing this with blanket eliminations of layers carries a risk: inadvertently pruning away the next generation of leadership talent. PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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Eight Tech trends of 2015

freshminds

Technology is constantly influencing the way that businesses run in 2015. So let's deconstruct the Tech trends of 2015. Companies need to attract and develop talent through graduate schemes in the IT sector that could interest arts students who may have new visions to re-imagine what is possible within digital.

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Can AI Ever Be as Curious as Humans?

Harvard Business

Since no skill can be learned without a minimum level of interest , curiosity may be considered one of the critical foundations of talent. As Albert Einstein famously noted , “I have no special talent. Google has used it to optimize cooling efficiency with its data centers. I am only passionately curious.”